Wizards of the Coast is hosting a preview panel at MagicCon Atlanta, showing off all the sets coming to Magic in 2027. While we know of most of the in-universe sets coming to the game next year, the real mystery is the two yet-to-be revealed Universes Beyond crossover sets.
Unfortunately, WotC didn’t spend any time showing off the next Universes Beyond sets, and just focused on Nauctis: The Sunken Realm, the first set that will be coming out February 5, 2027. But, there was a fun little segment with puppets and Brian Henson, so that helped a little bit.
I was watching the event live, and you can scroll below to see the event as it happened.
As of right now, you can get Squenn and Cragg stickers on Magic Arena.
Apparently that’s the show. So it was just Nauctis. There was no information about the two Universes Beyond sets that are yet to be released, and they only showed a few cards from the first set next year.
They just opened the curtains to reveal four puppeteers, which are needed to puppet the two characters. Apparently they’re very complicated, and there’s also two other people who are voicing the characters.
Brian Henson has come on stage to talk more about the creation of Squen and Cragg.
Henson is giving Wizards of the Coast props for being the #1 employer of painters in the world, and is also talking about the creation of the puppets that just took over the last segment.
They’re rolling a clip. And it even has a musical number.
Now two puppets have taken the stage for the “Squen and Cragg Show” to kick off the next chapter of the preview event.
They weren’t able to show off much more information about the show, but I definitely can’t wait to watch it myself. The art looks incredible.
Magic TV Show Gets A Title
It sounds like the Magic show isn’t going to just focus on one world, but rather a whole collection of different planes, which is true to the card game. It’s called “Magic the Gathering: Planeswalker” and it’s coming out in 2027.
The Magic show will be animated and it’s going to be about some of the Planeswalkers. “What we have to go off of is thousands of worlds” “It’s not just world-building, it’s worlds-building.”
Here it is, the series! We’ve known there’s been a Magic The Gathering Show coming for a while, and now we’re going to hear more.
There will also be a Planeswalker Encyclopedia coming out in September 2027.
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